Correspondent in Berlin
The AfD's road to respectability and demonization is long and strewn with pitfalls.
The co-chairman of the far-right party, Jörg Meuthen, who embodies the moderate line, learned the hard way during a training congress held this weekend in Kalkar.
The 600 delegates had gathered, masked, in this small town in North Rhine-Westphalia despite health recommendations.
They left with a new economic platform on pension reform, but still tossed between a radical and centrist line.
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The AfD must be a bourgeois party with a bourgeois reason and endowed with an appearance of seriousness,
” Jörg Meuthen repeated.
For nine months, this academic by profession has been trying to clean up the far-right formation, after excluding from its ranks a former figure of the neo-Nazi scene, Andreas Kalbitz.
The radical wing that the latter animated, Der Flügel (the Wing), very influential in
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